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Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You
Hours of San Francisco Police Department drone video footage exposed on the open web illustrates a new era of incredibly granular—and consequential—urban surveillance. Meanwhile, the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google this week demanding that the tech giants delete 13 AI nudifying “face-swap” apps from their app stores that…
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Amazon delivery companies lay off more than 150 people in the San Francisco Bay Area
Two Amazon delivery service partners are shutting offices and laying off hundreds. Xpress Delivery, located in Oakland, will be laying off 80 employees. OnPoint Logistics will be ceasing operations at its San Francisco location and cutting 96 jobs, according to a government filing. Amazon delivery service partners are independent businesses that partner with Amazon to…
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Hidden beneath Trump’s bogus babble was this terrifying fact
I watched the horror show that was Donald Trump’s address to his base Thursday night, the one not covered by ABC and NBC on their traditional over-the-air networks (the ones fewer and fewer people watch, anyway). It was a predictably appalling display because it showed the depths to which the president will sink to rig…
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Japan votes to keep emperor succession male-only, blocking Princess Aiko from throne
Japan’s Parliament voted Friday to enshrine male-only succession for the imperial throne, part of a monarchy that traces its origins back roughly 1,500 years. Lawmakers did so by revising an Imperial House Law dating back to the 1800s, despite warnings from experts that limiting succession to men in the paternal line will hasten the decline…
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How Google’s New Gemini Rates Work and How to Track Your Usage
Earlier this summer, Google rolled out a bunch of upgrades to its Gemini AI apps, making them more powerful than ever. Google’s AI can now work across more apps, and it’s getting increasingly difficult to use anything made by Google without bumping into some kind of AI feature or assistant. Besides all of the AI…
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FIFA Doesn’t Have a Plan to Deal With Climate Change
The biggest game in soccer is set for Sunday, when Argentina and Spain will meet in the World Cup final, held just outside of New York City. There’s just one problem. Wildfire smoke now threatens the match—and FIFA, the sport’s governing body, doesn’t appear to have any plan in place to protect the health of…
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US Hospitals Are Outsourcing In-Person Nursing to Remote Health Workers in the Philippines
The next time you’re checking into a hospital, it’s possible that your nurse may actually be 8,000 miles away. That’s the reality at a growing number of hospitals throughout the US and the world, which are turning to low-paid telehealth workers in the Philippines to help fill in the duty roster. As it is for…
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It was a California roadside icon. Then, vandals wrecked it. The sad end for Pea Soup Andersen’s
For nearly a century, Pea Soup Andersen’s served millions of bowls of steaming nourishment to generations of road-trippers traveling through California’s Central Coast, helping put the small town of Buellton on the map. It wasn’t just the food. In a roadside culture of corporate hamburgers and gas station minimarts, the ubiquitous billboards and small-time charms…
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Lefty actress Cynthia Nixon will help pick top judges: Goodbye to NY rule of law
Leaving no doubt that lefty politics trump the rule of law in these parts, New York state Chief Judge Rowan Wilson just tapped far-left actress Cynthia Nixon to help select future members of the top court. She’s no lawyer; she only played one on TV — yet that, along with her far-left cred, is apparently…
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You’ll Never Guess What Tasty Molecule Astronomers Just Detected In Space
Outer space: it’s cold, it’s dark, it’s mostly empty. And it’s occasionally very sweet. Astronomers peering into the heart of our galaxy have spotted traces of erythrulose, the same kind of sugar that’s found in raspberries, kiwis, and other fruits, speckled in a giant gas cloud. The delectable discovery, detailed in a new study published…